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Skyrmir , in 'There Are No Kings in America': Biden Blasts Supreme Court, Issues Dire Warning After Immunity Ruling

Send the supreme court to Guantanamo for a weekend interrogation. Then let them think about how immune a president is.

nondescripthandle , in LGBTQ+ orgs blast Joe Biden's "cowardly" statement opposing surgeries for trans youth

Biden was never much of a fighter. He’s done almost nothing to help while dozens of states pass anti trans legislature. But hey he made it so trans people can join the military again, if they can survive their state that is.

jeffw OP ,
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You mean like hoods executive order that was blocked by courts? I’m not saying he’s the biggest trans ally but saying he’s done almost nothing is unfair imo

nondescripthandle ,

How many states did he let pass harmful legislation before doing that? Or was the plan always to wait until the election cycle for that order? An election cycle EO that can’t pass the courts is indeed almost nothing.

hypna ,

“let pass”… . is there some major confusion about how presidential vetoes work here, or what do you even mean?

nondescripthandle , (edited )

let pass harmful legislation before doing that

Of course if you remove words you change the context but that’s entirely grammatically correct and a common use of that phrase. If you wanna dwell on what those words mean in other context go ahead but that’s not saving any trans kids.

If were to assume that EO is Joe fighting back, then he did indeed let those laws pass without fighting back until it was an election season. Context is important and I usually don’t have to explain every word like its a middle school English class unless I’m responding to republicans reading my statements in bad faith.

Let’s get pedantic and semantic then shall we. www.thesaurus.com/browse/let-pass

The context was always how much was he wiling to allow before he responded and the answer is a lot.

hypna ,

I think in the context of legislation, interpreting “let pass” to mean “allow to be signed into law” is understandable. But I see you just meant it chronologically.

TopRamenBinLaden ,

There’s a lot to criticize about the dems and Bidens administration, that’s for certain. One thing we can say is that even though it hasn’t been the best ally to LGBTQ+ community as it could be, the alternative is an enemy and great threat to all marginalized people. Trump will most definitely work to ban any sort of gender affirming care.

The DNC deserves criticism for sure, and I completely agree with calling out it’s bullshit. They need to do better and/or we need better options, for sure. They should be our most conservative party in an ideal world.

Criticize, loudly even, just please don’t throw away your vote. I’m afraid people’s apathy is going to get an actual enemy elected.

nondescripthandle ,

I’ll be at the polls. As important as the presidential is this year the locals always have a large impact on a lot of non insignificant things, and sometimes massively significant things, as well as the ballot initiatives. In almost any race I can respect the choice of abstention, but if you don’t show up for at least the ballot initiatives, the closest thing the US has to direct democracy, then I just think you’re not even trying to make democracy work. I know I can’t say the gym isn’t working if I’m not even trying to use the equipment.

jmsy ,

What do you propose he does?

Glytch ,

Not give speeches that cave to conservative pressure? Especially since there’s no way for him to pull their votes away from Trump anyway.

rayyy , in Friends Are Fundraising for a Stormy Daniels Safe House

Welcome to the so-to-be shit-hole country, formerly known as the “Great American Experiment”, where murder and mayhem happen on a daily basis.

Thekingoflorda , in Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body
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Bleep Bloop. When reading this source, please be critical. This source has been rated by MFBR as being of lower credibility. Report: Source detected: theguardian.com, BSFR ratubg: bias: left-center, credibility: medium-credibility, questionable: []. Thank you for being a part of !news :D (this action was taken automatically)

Ghostalmedia ,
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Samvega ,

I can exercise my critical abilities by blocking this bot! Bye!

Thekingoflorda ,
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Seems like you guys really don’t like my bot, haha. Whoops, sorry. Will for now disable it and see how to proceed.

Cipher22 ,

Maybe add links to data sources and separate items that are objectively negative from those that someone may prefer? (i.e., reliability being low is always bad, left or right leaning being bad is based on individual perspectives.

Thekingoflorda ,
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Items that are objectively considered bad are removed. This message is more intended to warn the users. I agree that I should rephrase the message.

Thank you for the feedback.

inspxtr ,

You can also just post the 4-5 data items without claiming that this is low or high credibility or bias. Then let the people make the decision. Like this maybe:

“Based on source X, this source media bias is:

  • bias: A
  • cred: B

Methodology of X is at: “

Thekingoflorda ,
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Yea, that sounds like a good idea. Thank you for the feedback (:

Wrench ,

I liked it. The guardian is awful. Like the huffington post. It’s the other side of the coin from Fox News, etc. Lemmy just doesn’t like being reminded that progressives have biased news sources too.

I don’t always notice the source at first, so this was a good reminder.

IchNichtenLichten ,
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It’s the other side of the coin from Fox News

It’s absolutely not.

First, they don’t just make shit up. Second, they’re very comfortable with center-left neoliberal ideology but anything to the left of that really upsets them.

Bremmy ,

Opposite of Fox News would be The Onion because they both make up shit

Reality has a left leaning bias

dumblederp ,
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Fwiw I don’t like social media bots in general.

ArgentRaven ,

The guardian is lower credibility? I guess I should get all my information from OAN or FOX, huh?

What the fuck is MFBR and why should I give a shit what it thinks? How do I know it’s not biased?

lemmyman ,

I assume MFBR was supposed to be MFBC, and you can see their summary of why they assessed the Guardian that way Here

Pretzilla ,

MBFC summary:

Overall, we rate The Guardian as Left-Center biased based on story selection that moderately favors the left and Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks over the last five years. (5/18/2016) Updated (M. Huitsing 06/30/2024)

Aux ,

Bad bot.

Thekingoflorda ,
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<3

jpreston2005 , (edited ) in This Wouldn’t Be the First Time an Incumbent Stepped Aside. Here’s What Happened Last Time.

These kinds of posts are actively harming our chances of avoiding a fascist take over. Can you not? The convicted felon was just listed even more times on the infamous pedophiles private docs, is there not an article about that you can post? gotta make sure everyone keeps talking about how an old man had an old man moment. An old man that’s helping the IRS go after the 1%, helping the EPA regulate carbon emissions, helping medicare lower drug prices, helping student loan borrowers reduce their burden, helping fucking Ukraine while it defends itself against the soft-launch of WWIII… I’m sure there’s more I’m missing.

I’ll vote for a corpse over fucking fascism. Biden passing would mean a strong black woman gets put in charge, and however much I disagree with some of her positions, I would take almost any black woman over drumpf. 99% chance of them being 1000x better for working families than the convicted felon pedophile rapist.

FlyingSquid ,
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It looks like Trump’s involvement with the Epstein docs has been completely blacklisted by the U.S.

This is where I found a story- timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/111465121.cms

ABCDE ,

Trump is likely going to win, the sooner you accept that the sooner you stop whining that people are engaging in civil discussion over a massive fucking mistake waiting to happen: running a feeble old guy who is likely to pop his clogs soon, who voters will avoid because of his poor performance in front of millions of people.

NewNewAccount ,

We’re not having discussion for discussion’s sake. We want a new candidate so that Trump’s win isn’t actually an eventuality.

ABCDE ,

Indeed. If a candidate cannot stand up to some online scrutiny, I can’t see there being much hope.

Someonelol , in Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body
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Despite all this terrible news about plastics, we still won’t go after the oil companies or plastic producers in the US to help put a stop to this.

Duamerthrax ,

It would be inconvenient for the economy if we started prioritizing people.

ThinkBeforeYouPost ,

I agree with you, but PFAS/“Forever Chemicals” and micro/nano plastics are different things with their own host of concerns.

Someonelol ,
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They go hand in hand with a lot of plastic packaging. Either way, it’d be nice to go after companies like DuPont, Bayer, 3M, and Honeywell as well as the oil companies that provide them the raw materials anyway.

Black616Angel ,

Yes, of course, I mean just stop… Eating fucking rice first!

That is much better than those long and boring legal battles anyway. Who even eats rice or eggs or drinks coffee?

Zess ,

California has been going after DuPont for PFAS for a couple years now.

Thann , in Friends Are Fundraising for a Stormy Daniels Safe House
@Thann@lemmy.ml avatar

Michael Avenatti accusing her of being a grifter is rich!

feedum_sneedson , in Neil Gaiman Denies Sexual Assault Allegations Made by Two Women

Knew it.

SaltySalamander ,

Did you now?

Snowpix ,
@Snowpix@lemmy.ca avatar

Sure you did, buddy. Sure you did.

ccunning , in Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body

Basically my ideal breakfast…

ccunning ,

Downvoted for innocuous comment

It really is starting to feel like Reddit around here 😊🥹

BigMacHole , in House Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Supreme Court's immunity decision

ADDING an Amendment to a Document that the Supreme Court is IGNORING is the PERFECT way to Fix this!

Freefall ,

The SCOTUS will rule the president still has immunity, again…they don’t care what the Constitution actually says.

lolcatnip ,

And also impossible because the Republicanazis would never allow it.

InternetUser2012 ,

republikkklowns

card797 , in This Wouldn’t Be the First Time an Incumbent Stepped Aside. Here’s What Happened Last Time.

I’m so sick of hearing about Biden. How about point out any of the dozens of disgusting remarks and wants of the wanna-be dictator, cheetoh mcgee? It’s almost as if all media companies are owned by right wing capitalist wankers.

Diplomjodler3 ,

Wait, that can’t possibly be the case. checks notes

Oh shit.

2484345508 ,

Because Lemmy is flooded with Russian influence, and most of the news and comments are directed to Biden topics instead of Trump topics to keep the heat on the “right person”

OccamsTeapot ,

Lemmy is flooded with Russian influence

What do you mean by that? That people use “Russian” talking points or that there are literally bots/agitators directly from Russia trying to shape the narrative here?

2484345508 ,

It probably real people.

OccamsTeapot ,

Why would anyone pay someone to post on Lemmy? Not the biggest expense/exposure ratio, surely?

2484345508 ,

It’s not so much about posting, but influencing the direction of the conversation. Which can involve posting. There are plenty of groups who get paid to just talk shit online. I would be surprised if the US didn’t have a group too.

OccamsTeapot ,

Yeah but on Lemmy? Of all places?

Zipitydew ,

Lemmy’s developers are actual tankies. The original and a still large instance is Lemmy.ml. The ML meaning Marxist Leninist. The mods there are ridiculously ban heavy around questioning anything to do with BRICS nations. They even preemptively ban accounts who post outside of their instance if you say truthful things like NATO is a defensive alliance, Russia is the aggressor in Ukraine, or China is being imperialist themselves in SE Asia.

OccamsTeapot , (edited )

The original and a still large instance is Lemmy.ml. The ML meaning Marxist Leninist.

Yeah I know, I subscribe to some communities there.

They even preemptively ban accounts who post outside of their instance if you say truthful things like NATO is a defensive alliance, Russia is the aggressor in Ukraine, or China is being imperialist themselves in SE Asia.

I will test this then! Russia is the aggressor in Ukraine and Putin is a cunt. Stalin was a monster. I’ll make similar comments over on ml at the next opportunity. (Edit let’s see how it goes https://lemmy.world/comment/11002066)

Just to be clear. I don’t doubt that there are normal people here who are pro Russia or are tankies. What I doubt is that real people are being paid money to “influence the conversation” on this relatively obscure platform. That’s all

2484345508 ,

Yea. Lemmy is a breeding ground.

OccamsTeapot ,

I think this is less of a problem than you’re implying

2484345508 ,

I think it’s more common than you understand it to be.

Also, Lemmy.world (your instance) has de-federated from a few of the more “active” instances that harbor many of those people.

Ensign_Crab ,

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  • OccamsTeapot ,

    Yeah I’m sure Putin’s top priority is infiltrating the Linux nerds and Trekkies in their natural habitat. Facebook? Nah. Reddit? Nyet. We need to go where the real action is.

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  • Ensign_Crab ,

    Like so.

    soratoyuki ,

    Wanting a President that can string two coherent sentences together doesn’t make you a Russian bot.

    2484345508 ,

    That’s true, and so far none of the people running can.

    goferking0 ,

    Hence the reason for why people are calling for one to be replaced as it’s not a deal breaker for the other party

    JimSamtanko ,

    This is 100% accurate.

    Cap , in Boeing’s crisis in Washington is about to soar to a new phase
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    Who is less popular now, Musk or Boeing?

    FlyingSquid ,
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    Yes.

    girlfreddy OP ,
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    Cosmos7349 , in Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body

    But this is my entire diet…

    Badabinski , in Boeing’s crisis in Washington is about to soar to a new phase

    Hey! Boeing! There's a saying that's popular amongst lawyers—"if you must eat crow, do so while it is fresh."

    The uh, crow is already pretty fucking old. Best to just eat it now before you get it shoved down your throat by the DOJ.

    RandomGuy79 , in Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"

    It’s already blooded, it’s just that the left has no teeth. It’s all performative “who has it worse” olympics

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